Drem wrote:Eziekial wrote:My point is that the government has control over your life in many aspects that most of this board find perfectly acceptable including how and when you die so it's ironic that those same people get riled up over the abortion issue. I'm not sure what your point of trying to equate a child to a tumor was getting at but I assume you were playing some relevance angle.
There are laws and regulations on what drugs you can take. The Supreme Court will be hearing a case to determine if you can even sue a drug company for damages caused by their product (I believe it's a case of a musician who lost her arm from gangrene after a cortisone shot). I don't know how that "ranks" on your scale.
Some medical procedures are restricted by the FDA so people fly to Bahamas or Europe to get them done. Who knows, maybe the cure for cancer is being held up by the FDA as we debate this topic. Is that enough tumors? Would that anger you?
It's the same general authority which fuels this debate on abortion that is used to take the product of your labor against your will to be used as someone else sees fit. It's all about control. Control over your wallet, your mind and your body. No matter how you slice it, if you believe that the government HAS this authority to control you to begin with then all that we will ever do here is a fruitless struggle to define a pointless grey line that shifts each day.
Yep. Medicine's a business, like anything else. In a lot of situations, they don't sell you cures, they sell you temporary relief
Medicine sells drugs and surgery.
